Hi Stephen, These are my methods, and reasons behind them: 1) Wife with unknown maiden name: I used to use [---?---] for an unknown surname, following the recommendations of the "Professional Genealogy" textbook, however it hampered Legacy's automatic searches of the IGI and Internet. (A name Mary [---?---] will not match a Mary with no last name entered.) I have changed this now to using the Private Notes brackets [[Sullivan]] where Sullivan is her married name. It only appears to me in my index, but not on reports or my Rootsweb Worldconnect tree. I am still not 100% sure which method I really want to use on this, so may change my mind in the future, yet again!
2) Unnamed infant: If I know the sex of the child, I enter (Male) or (Female), similar to the listings in a vital records index. If I do not know the sex, I enter (Infant) -- all are in parenthesis. 3) Siblings with unknown parents: I create only the unknown father by adding a father, but not editing the name. I have Legacy set up to automatically use the same surname of the first sibling to create the father's last name. Then I start adding additional children. I do not enter anything for the mother. For index purposes (and I hadn't thought about doing this yet, so will probably go and revise mine), you could put [[Father]] or [[Patriarch]] in the given name so the person will be more readily identifiable in your Name List. Susan Daily On 4/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just started using Legacy and have three questions on its usage. > > 1) What is the best, standard, most efficient, etc. method of entering a wife > when the maiden name is unknown and there is little prospect of determining > it? > > 2) How should an unnamed child that died in infancy be entered? I want it > recorded and have entered the child with "Unnamed Son Of" as the first name > and the surname as the last name. Is there a better method?> > 3) I have entries for people as spouses whose parents are unknown. I want to > add siblings to those people but Legacy doesn't appear to allow the addition > of an individual without a parent. How can I get them in? Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
